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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs 17.61 crashes in garbage collector
Message-ID: <319@cray.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-May-86 12:10:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 12:10:40 1986
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Organization: Cray Research Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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We are running GNU Emacs version 17.61 on a VAX 785 running System V.2
off the shelf.  When the dumped Emacs does garbage collection, it dies
with a "Fatal error.Memory fault - core dumped" message.  I've taken a
quick look at the core dump, and the last function executed before fatal
is mark_object.

Since there are (garbage-collect) lines liberally sprinkled through
loadup.el, and since temacs loads and dumps just fine, I assume that
the problem exists only after dumping.

Help!  I can only guess that the problem has something to do with the
garbage collector attempting to mark an object in the read-only text
segment.  Has anyone else seen this problem?  What next?
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Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN  55120
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